December 2005 - Posts

My new Cult Film - Geek Squad

Published 28 December 5 10:28 PM | William

I was at a major Best Buy today and got a great idea for a movie. It's called Geek Squad. Basically, I'd take the same storyline as Oz but all the villians would be members of a group known as the Geek Squad. All the new guys that come into the prison...

Filed under: Misc Technology

The Best "Priceless" commercial ever - Not Work Friendly

Published 22 December 5 8:50 PM | William

So work was a little slow and I've spent most of the day hammering out some crypto stuff and along comes this .

Filed under: Humor

The Data Diva's new Blog

Published 18 December 5 5:20 AM | William

Was just checking through the referrers and saw a link from Julia's other blog . I've been a big Julia Lerman since I first misspelled her name , plain and simply put, she rocks. She's got a great article on DevLife and well, I couldn't agree more. Anyway...

Filed under: .NET General

What am I missing about the Wikipedia 'scandal'

Published 17 December 5 11:19 PM | William

If you haven't heard about it yet (and probably everyone has), a gag entry was put into Wikipedia and it caused a huge scandal . H3ll, it even made /. I'm not sure I really follow what the problem is. Is it that the dude was slandered/libelled? Or was...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Sahil goes big time.

Published 17 December 5 10:57 PM | William

Well I knew it was coming for a while, but all I can say is it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy . Congrats Sahil . If they're half as good as good as his book that's resplendent in every way, they'll be a must have for any serious ADO.NET developer...

Filed under: Data Access, Books, .NET General

Sycophant Cult Update

Published 16 December 5 11:29 PM | William

Dear Loyal Members: Worshipped one has been busy lately and we need an update. Seems he got an XBox 360 without informing his loyal minions, until earlier today. Although he's told me at lenght that he spends very little money on a day to day basis, he...

Filed under: Humor

Where was this when I was in high school

Published 15 December 5 8:57 PM | William

I almost thought this was a goof but apparently it's not. Boy is this going to be fun

Filed under: Humor

I can't wait to get his book

Published 15 December 5 8:21 PM | William

Patrick just dropped me a note about his new C# book . I'm honored to be listed on the blog list with these guys . I can't wait to get a copy of it, it looks great ;-)

Handling Connection Strings

Published 15 December 5 3:44 PM | William

This issue comes up periodically in the newsgroups and I figured I'd address it so I can just point back to it in the future. In essence, the question comes up "Should I use app/web.config files to store connection strings or should I hard code it in...

Filed under: Data Access

New Gmail Annoyance

Published 13 December 5 2:49 AM | William

B1tching about something that's free is the ultimate looking a gift horse in the mouth, but there's a new Gmail annoyance that's driving me nuts. The new adsense that sits in the header section of the gmail grid is normally inobtrusive and well placed...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Question about Unit Testing

Published 10 December 5 8:28 AM | William

I got on a little late when it comes to unit testing, but I'm definitely sold on it. However I came across something unexpected the other day and it threw me for a loop. I'm curious to see how other people handle the issue. In the past, I basically wrote...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

Our new ADO.NET book is out...

Published 8 December 5 5:1 PM | William

Well, our new book Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL was finally released. Objectively speaking, I think it's a great read and will hopefully turn out to be one of the top ADO.NET 2.0 books....

Filed under: Books

I pwn 8th Grade

Published 5 December 5 1:33 PM | William

Thanks to Scott for the Meme You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 6/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

Filed under: Memes

Just what we needed - Cingular is jumping into the Walkie Talkie Market

Published 5 December 5 7:54 AM | William

I don't know about you, but at least 10 times a day I say to myself “Dammit, why don't more people use those Nextel phones. I really love hearing the cool sound they make and people suffixing their sentences with “over” or something...

Filed under: Misc Technology

If you see flames in Jackson

Published 4 December 5 11:59 AM | William

It's probably my failed attempt at wiring the crib for VOIP . I agree, the biggest problem with VOIP is that you can't use your jacks. This is pretty easy to work around inasmuch as cordless phones with multiple adapters are cheap, and now, just about...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Booth Babes

Published 1 December 5 12:58 PM | William

I got a good bit more, but having flickr trouble at the moment... www. flick r .com More of cuckoozpikshurz's photos tagged with Launch

Filed under: Me